Gilbert Melki

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Gilbert Melki
Gilbert Melki in 2012
Born	(1958-11-12) 12 November 1958 (age 62) Paris, France
Years active	1992—present

Gilbert Melki (French pronunciation: ​[ʒilbɛʁ mɛlˈki]; born 12 November 1958) is a French actor.

Life and career[]

Nephew of actor Claude Melki (), Melki grew up in a Jewish family from Algeria. His father, an antiques dealer, came from Khenchela in Algeria and his mother was from France. Both hid during the World War II: his father in Lyon and his mother in Normandy.^[1]

His father sent him to a woodworking school, but Melki only stayed a few months. At 20 he decided to move towards comedy and took multiple drama classes. Fearful of not being up to par he went to live for several years in Italy.

After a first appearance on screen in 1992 in the Claude Chabrol film Betty, Gilbert Melki rose to prominence in 1996 through Would I Lie To You? by in which he played Patrick Abitbol, a great businessman and millionaire megalomaniac, a role he revisited in the sequel in 2001.

His later films include the 2005 film Crustacés et Coquillages. In 2012, he moved to television with the Canal+ comedy series Kaboul Kitchen.

Filmography[]

• 1992

Betty by Claude Chabrol

• 1997

La Vérité si je mens ! by

by

by Miguel Courtois

• 1998

 [fr] by  [fr]

La Patinoire by Jean-Philippe Toussaint

by Fabien Onteniente

• 1999

by

by Olivier Schatzky

Vénus beauté (institut) by Tonie Marshall

• 2000

by

by

• 2001

A Hell of a Day by Marion Vernoux

 [fr] by Antoine de Caunes

by

• 2002

Un couple épatant by Lucas Belvaux

Cavale by Lucas Belvaux

Après la vie by Lucas Belvaux

Au plus près du paradis by Tonie Marshall

• 2003

Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran by François Dupeyron

Rencontre avec le dragon by

• 2004

Les Temps qui changent (Changing Times) by André Téchiné

by Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz

by Miguel Bardem

Confidences trop intimes (Intimate Strangers) by Patrice Leconte

• 2005

Angel-A by Luc Besson

Palais Royal by Valérie Lemercier

• 2006

Crustacés et coquillages (Cockles and Muscles) by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau

by

La Raison du plus faible by Lucas Belvaux

Mr. Average

• 2007

Le Deuxième Souffle by Alain Corneau

Anna M. by

by

by Benoît Mariage

Le Tueur by

• 2008

by

Largo Winch by Jérôme Salle

• 2009

Accomplices by

• 2010

by

by

• 2012

  by

• 2016

  Vendeur by Sylvain Desclous

• 2019

  Le Bazar de la Charité by Alexandre Laurent

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External links[]

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• Gilbert Melki at IMDb